Review of Paul Williams: Still Alive

I've never seen a documentary that is actually about the filmmaker more than the subject. Paul Williams is extremely gracious, while this stalker/filmmaker injects himself into his life and is completely tone deaf as to Paul's hints about how he felt crowded and intruded upon. The filmmaker starts out by going on about how he wished he could just hang around with Paul Williams...and that's what he does the whole film. It barely scratches the surface of what could have been illuminating about his life and work. No, instead we are treated to looking at Paul in a successive number of hotel rooms and then clips generously provided by Paul Williams. I mean who wants to hear about a meaningful story about his father when we can watch him jump out of a plane in Circus of the Stars. This doc was a crime!